The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-12
Am on Account Of the Baby.
From the Toronto Globe.

A baby up ON North avenue was the In
nocent cause of a great deal of misery the
other day. It's mamma had sat the little fell
low down on the floor to amuse himself.
while she CLEANED the house, To keep
the baby quiet, mamma gave him a
small spool and a ring with a diamond
in it,
In a few minutes mamma turned around to
see what made the baby cough so, and saw
that he did not have either the ring or the
spool. She dropped fine piece of Egyp.
tain jewelry, breaking it into as many
pieces as there are freckles on the face of
red-headed girl, and then began TO search
around for the spool and ring.
81 wonder what he did with themEn she
asked, as she began searching under the
infant. Just then he gave a tremendous
cough.
His mamma grabbed him by the feet, held
him upside down and beat his back Scream
ing for help, for the doctor, and for every
body at once.
The baby gained his voice in the general
excitement, and began to exercise its lungs
for all he was worth, mingling his
tremendous howls with violent fits of cough
ing,
80, my baby is dying; he is choking to
DEATH" exclaimed mamma, as the neighbors
rushed in "Will some of you run for doc
tor quickly What shall do! 0, my pet,
my darling"
A young lady, as soon as she found out;
what the rapacious youngster had swal-
lowed, started OFF like a piece of chain
lightning to get doctor, while her loosened
hair streamed brayely out behind. The
servant girl sailed away like sound
steamer after a stomach pump, while
five neighbors started off for vomiting
materials.
Better put him in hot water" said the
old lady who talks alto.
"Give him ipecac, said another.
"Let me run my finger down his throat
and feel for the things" said another.
She pried the baby's mouth open like.
splitting knot Of wood, and began to work
her hand towards the immortal liver of the
screaming infant. The baby stopped cry
ing for one brief moment in the astonish-
ment he experienced by feeling something
going in the direction Of his youthful diges-
tive machinery. Then look of pain came
into his face, his eyes bulged out and his
jaws came together like fox trap, burying
his four new teeth in the lady's finger, caus-
ing her to make some hasty remarks which
the old maid of the neighborhood resolved
to report TO the pastor. The lady stuck
her finger in her mouth to suck the blood
off, and went for home, remarking that a
revolver would be the best thing for such a
baby. In the meantime the baby cried
louder and his mamma had tainted. 1
The doctor came and felt of the baby's
pulse and found it beating ell right, looked
at the tongue, pried his mouth open with a
lance handle, called another doctor in to
consult, gave four powders, which he said
were to be given every fifteen minutes: to
nauseate him by degrees, and left saying
he'd call in an hour. All the ladies said the
doctor was brute, and that the little dar-
ling was sinking fast, which was not borne
out by the power of the infants yells as he
was kept passing around in arms
His father had arrived just before the doc
tor left, and said:
~ don't believe anything is the matter
with him except SO much rough handling
50, you unnatural father" said the
mother, going into Mysteries; you'll feel
sorry when the little fellow is no more, and
repent of your hard-heartedness.
"Well, he don't cry like il, anyway. I'm
going TO search him;n and all the ladies'
shrieked as he took his yelling heir and be-
gan TO look all about him, while everybody
protested that he was only fastening the
end.
The father opened one of the clnched
fists of the baby and found the ring; in the
other, after wrenching it open, he found
the spool.
Beautiful mess you've all made Of thisl
Two doctors bills and big drug bill for
nothingl And to have me 10 come tearing
through Austin with no hat on, in my shirt
sleeves, and one of my suspenders flying,
while all the state had its eye on mel Fine
spectacle to make of your husband, ehg
And he put the now laughing baby down
ard went Off, while the neighbors all left
and said: Its sin the way some men do"